Football de-arte isn’t everything, but after a few hours of FM15’s muscular physicality I found myself longing for the silky skills of my old Everton team. FM14 was the football of coffee house intellectuals, FM15 plays like a lager lout. At its best, Football Manager reflects the state of modern football, but these tactics are straight out of 1998.Ĭontrast this to FM14, where players were playing gorgeous passing football and experimenting with avante-garde strikerless formations while holding discussions about ‘verticality’.
I started the game fantasising about being Brendan Rodgers or Joachim Low, but I ended up playing like Tony Pulis. But it does seem a bit strange in a world where all the major teams are all using inverted wingers and diamond formations for old fashioned touchline hugging wingers to be so dominant. If you do, you’ll probably like FM15’s decidedly retro approach. Now you, dear reader, may love long ball football, you may delight in old fashioned wing play. I’d say two thirds of my goals came from crosses, and the rest from long balls over the top. Get enough balls into the box and you will probably win. Target men and traditional wingers are in vogue in a way not seen since the early 2000s. But there’s a significant pattern to this year’s efforts: crosses are everything. The way it works is so deliberately, wonderfully opaque that players tend to treat it like a force of nature rather than something that has ever actually been designed. Veteran players may chafe at having to unlearn years of bad habits but trust me, it’s worth it. Some changes are clear reactions to how players use the game, like moving the much used quicksearch bar front and centre, while others try subtly influence them, like combining the player search and scout sections to encourage you to use your staff.
It’s not only pretty, but includes some smart decisions.
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